Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring KVM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited KVM over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 784 843 1134
Rank change year-on-year +59 +291 -225
Permanent jobs citing KVM 58 44 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.055% 0.080%
As % of the System Software category 0.61% 0.34% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 51 37 49
10th Percentile - £39,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £24,240 £45,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £26,000 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -52.73% -21.43% +40.00%
75th Percentile £56,250 £67,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £76,250 £103,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £24,811 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -54.89% -8.33% +26.32%

All System Software Skills
UK

KVM falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 9,464 12,848 30,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.47% 15.92% 17.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,021 8,994 15,471
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,293 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%

KVM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing KVM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for KVM in the UK

KVM
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing KVM.

Salary trend for KVM in the UK

KVM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing KVM over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for KVM in the UK

KVM
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing KVM within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +48 46 £35,500 -38.26% 4
UK excluding London -13 43 £24,811 -54.89% 7
London +86 12 £77,500 +6.90% 1
Work from Home +37 12 £52,500 -4.55% 5
Scotland -34 11 £24,811 -64.56% 1
East of England +5 10 £24,240 -61.22%
South East +9 7 £45,000 -18.18% 1
South West -7 6 £53,750 +7.50% 2
Midlands -15 6 £24,240 -55.93%
East Midlands - 6 £24,240 -
North of England +3 3 £24,811 -58.65%
North West -14 2 £24,811 -58.65%
Yorkshire +58 1 - -

KVM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.17%) Apache
1 3 (5.17%) CloudStack
1 3 (5.17%) IIS
2 1 (1.72%) nginx
2 1 (1.72%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (27.59%) AWS
2 14 (24.14%) Azure
3 3 (5.17%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (5.17%) OCI
3 3 (5.17%) SaaS
4 2 (3.45%) GCP
4 2 (3.45%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.72%) IaaS
5 1 (1.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (41.38%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (12.07%) TCP/IP
3 5 (8.62%) Internet
4 4 (6.90%) DHCP
4 4 (6.90%) DNS
4 4 (6.90%) LAN
4 4 (6.90%) WAN
4 4 (6.90%) Wireshark
5 3 (5.17%) iSCSI
5 3 (5.17%) tcpdump
6 2 (3.45%) VLAN
7 1 (1.72%) 5G
7 1 (1.72%) 802.11
7 1 (1.72%) Ethernet
7 1 (1.72%) Firewall
7 1 (1.72%) Multicast
7 1 (1.72%) VoIP
7 1 (1.72%) Wireless
7 1 (1.72%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
1 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (5.17%) Redis
1 3 (5.17%) TimescaleDB
2 1 (1.72%) Big Data
2 1 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Git
1 3 (5.17%) Jenkins
General
1 11 (18.97%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.62%) Finance
3 4 (6.90%) Banking
3 4 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (6.90%) Retail Banking
3 4 (6.90%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.17%) Back Office
5 2 (3.45%) Advertising
5 2 (3.45%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.72%) Games
6 1 (1.72%) Multimedia
6 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (39.66%) Mobile Engineer
2 18 (31.03%) Support Engineer
3 15 (25.86%) Desktop Engineer
3 15 (25.86%) Desktop Support
3 15 (25.86%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 15 (25.86%) Junior
3 15 (25.86%) Junior Desktop Engineer
3 15 (25.86%) Junior Desktop Support
3 15 (25.86%) Junior Desktop Support Engineer
3 15 (25.86%) Junior Support Engineer
4 9 (15.52%) Linux Engineer
5 8 (13.79%) Technical Engineer
6 7 (12.07%) Senior
7 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (10.34%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 5 (8.62%) Architect
8 5 (8.62%) Technical Architect
9 4 (6.90%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (5.17%) Developer
10 3 (5.17%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.17%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (5.17%) CSS
1 3 (5.17%) Flask
1 3 (5.17%) HTML
1 3 (5.17%) jQuery
1 3 (5.17%) Keycloak
1 3 (5.17%) Middleware
1 3 (5.17%) Plotly
2 1 (1.72%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 23 (39.66%) Driving Licence
2 10 (17.24%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.72%) BYOD
4 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.72%) Clustering
4 1 (1.72%) EMC VNX
4 1 (1.72%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.72%) IoT
4 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 34 (58.62%) Windows
2 28 (48.28%) Linux
3 12 (20.69%) Ubuntu
4 8 (13.79%) CentOS
5 5 (8.62%) Debian
5 5 (8.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (5.17%) SUSE
6 3 (5.17%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 3 (5.17%) VMS
6 3 (5.17%) Windows 10
6 3 (5.17%) Windows 7
6 3 (5.17%) Windows Server
6 3 (5.17%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (5.17%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (5.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (44.83%) Asset Management
2 23 (39.66%) Proactive Maintenance
3 12 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (18.97%) Containerisation
5 10 (17.24%) Configuration Management
5 10 (17.24%) DevOps
6 7 (12.07%) Computer Science
6 7 (12.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (12.07%) Platform Engineering
7 5 (8.62%) Business Continuity
7 5 (8.62%) CI/CD
7 5 (8.62%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (6.90%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (6.90%) High Availability
8 4 (6.90%) Machine Learning
8 4 (6.90%) Task Automation
9 3 (5.17%) B2B
9 3 (5.17%) Cost Control
9 3 (5.17%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (5.17%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.41%) Python
2 8 (13.79%) Perl
3 6 (10.34%) Bash
4 3 (5.17%) C
4 3 (5.17%) C#
4 3 (5.17%) C++
4 3 (5.17%) Go
4 3 (5.17%) Java
4 3 (5.17%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.17%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (44.83%) Security Cleared
2 23 (39.66%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (13.79%) Degree
4 5 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (6.90%) RHCE
6 3 (5.17%) DV Cleared
6 3 (5.17%) Linux+ Certification
6 3 (5.17%) MCSA
6 3 (5.17%) MCSE
6 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (5.17%) RHCT
6 3 (5.17%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (39.66%) PCI DSS
1 23 (39.66%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (18.97%) Docker
3 10 (17.24%) Hyper-V
3 10 (17.24%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (13.79%) Xen
5 4 (6.90%) Active Directory
5 4 (6.90%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (5.17%) Ceph
6 3 (5.17%) Gluster
6 3 (5.17%) oVirt
6 3 (5.17%) QEMU
7 2 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (22.41%) Kubernetes
2 12 (20.69%) Ansible
3 10 (17.24%) Puppet
4 6 (10.34%) Progress Chef
4 6 (10.34%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.17%) Grafana
5 3 (5.17%) Graylog
5 3 (5.17%) Observium
5 3 (5.17%) ZABBIX
6 1 (1.72%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.72%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.72%) Nagios
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (1.72%) Sysdig
6 1 (1.72%) Terraform
6 1 (1.72%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.72%) vRealize
Vendors
1 26 (44.83%) Microsoft
2 24 (41.38%) Dell
3 19 (32.76%) VMware
4 13 (22.41%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.17%) Citrix
5 3 (5.17%) Oracle
5 3 (5.17%) SaltStack
5 3 (5.17%) Splunk
6 2 (3.45%) Google
7 1 (1.72%) Brocade
7 1 (1.72%) EMC
7 1 (1.72%) HP
7 1 (1.72%) Ruckus Wireless
7 1 (1.72%) Supermicro